Welcome to planeshift Shadowson!
About the camera: you can zoom while hollding shift by dragging your mouse. TAB enables mouslook and M switches between the camera modes.
About the character creation:
There is manual you can find
here, it also has a
section about char creation. This manual doesn\'t cover everything though. An since I am in a good mood, I made you a guide which tries to fill in the gaps. It came out to be longer than I expected though.
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There are two ways to create a character. You can select a path or you can go through the standard char creation procedure. In both cases you have to select a name, race, gender and you have to choose between a few different models of the chosen race (only applies for male Ynnwns so far).
If you quickly want to have a functioning character, you can chose one of the pre-defined paths by clicking the word \"path\" (not the word \"next\"!) Then you\'ll be able to choose between six pre-created paths. Click \"upload\" afterwards and you are done. Note that the current paths are mainly focused on different kinds of fighters. But even if you\'re not planning to be a fighter they will do fine.
If you want to give your character more \'background\', you can choose for the standard char creation method. This way you have to select the historical experiences which have formed your char to what it is when you start the game. You never see the exactly which skill or stat each option alters, but if you select things like \"you traveled with a circus\" you can expect to turn out to be more agile while \"you played war as a child\" gives you some fighting skills. To be sure all characters end up about equally developped, the system uses Character Points. You start out with 150 character points which you can spend on the different \'experiences\'. Always try to spend all your Character points (CP), or you\'ll end up with a disadvantage to other people.
After clicking \"next\" you\'ll get to the Birth screen. Here you can select a birth date and the amount of siblings you had in your family. Although these options don\'t cost CPs, they do have an influence on how your character will be. Read the descriptions of the months to see in what suits you the best, or chose \"randomize\".
After clicking \"next\" you\'ll get to the Parents screen. Here you can select the jobs your parents used to have. They also influence you (your char), as you can be expected to have learned from them. Don\'t spend all your CPs here though, as you have to select more things later on. If you run out of CPs at a moment, you can always return to the previous screens to chance to \'cheaper\' options.
You also can chose if your parents were normal, famous or exceptional in their professions. If you chose Famous or Exceptional, you\'ll pay more CPs, but you also get more benefits. Below you can select a religion, but that has no use yet.
After clicking \"next\" you\'ll get to the childhood screen. Here you can select your Birth event, Child activity and the type of house you lived in. It might be hard to guess how they influence your character, so simply chose what you like. The more expensive ones will always give more advantages though. Some options might cost a negative amount of CP, which simply means that it gives you a disadvantage or that the disadvantages out weight the advantages it gives.
After clicking \"next\" you?ll get to the Life events screen. This is the last screen where you can spend CPs. So try to spend all what you have safed here, as remaining CPs are simply lost. There are also quite some negative events, which give you extra CP. Be sure to read the whole descriptions before choosing something, as a lot of events have positive as well as negative aspects.
After clicking \"next\" youll get to the final screen. Here you can see the results of your choices. If you don?t like what you?ve got, you can always go back to change a few things. But don\'t be too picky, as you can always train the skills and stats in game. When you are finished click \"Upload\" to start the game.
Don\'t over estimate the influences of the char creation screen though, the race you chose most often influences your stats far more.
Here you can see the basic stats of the races. Also try to avoid stereotyping your char too much. If you play an enkidukai you probably want to be very agile. But that?s not per se a reason to choose all the options that boost your agility, as all the enkidukais are already very agile by default, and you might need some of the other stats and skills as well. The same goes for Strength and Krans, Intelligence and Xachas, Charisma and Diabolis, etc. Last advice: make sure your Endurence is not too low, or accept that minor wounds might seriously harm you and you have to rest after running for two minutes (, which makes traveling very time consuming)
